[Talib So many emcees focusin on people extermination We keep it balanced with that knowledge of self, It's hot, we be blowin the spots, with let's smooth it out like Soul Sensation
We in the house Japanese in Japan, or Koreans in Korea Head to and free Mumia with the Kujichagulia TRUE Singin is swingin and is fightin, but what they writin got us clashin like it's not excitin No question, a black man is demandin The fire's in my eyes and the flames fannin (3X)
With what? (Knowledge Of Self) Determination 4X*
Things I say and do, may not quite through My words may not convey just I'm feelin
Kweli] Yes yes on, yes yes Knowledge Of Self is like life death With that you never about your last breath comes, that's how I'm livin, it's the next days The flesh goes underground, the book of life, the page Yo they askin me how old, we the same age I feel the rage of a niggaz locked inside a cage At exactly which point do you start to That life knowledge is, death in disguise? That's why, Knowledge Of is like life after death it, to your life, let destiny manifest Different day, same confusion, we're gonna this shit and keep it movin, shed a little light Now y'all bloomin like a flower the power of the evident Voices and drums original In the flesh presentin my representation
With what? (Knowledge Of Self) Determination 6X* - - - - these two parts - - - - Things I say and do, may not come quite My words may not convey what I'm feelin 2X*
[Talib The important time in history is, NOW, the present So count your blessings cause time define the essence But you stressin over time and you follow the calendar These people enter like Gattaca, you can bet they tryin to lock you like Attica, the African diaspora represents strength in numbers, a giant slumber forever I know you gotta get cheddar whatever Aiyyo I heard you twice the first money, get it together You must be History, you repeatin out of the pages You keepin depleatin your spiritual wealth That quick cash'll get ass quick fast in houses of detention Inner-city concentration camps where no one attention or the ascension of death, til nothing's left The young, and Black are sprung addicted to crack All my people where y'all at cause, ain't here And your hero's using your as a canvas to paint fear With, broad strokes and tales of incarceration You get out of jail with Knowledge of Self determination in ovation, cause you put the Hue in Human Cause and effect, effect you do and that's why I got love in the of hate Hands steady so the lines in the mental is straight The thought you had even contemplate Infinite like figure eight no escape..
From what? (Knowledge Of Self) Determination 4X*
Things I say and do, may not quite through My may not convey just what I'm feelin 2X*
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Things I say and do, may not come through My words may not just what I'm feelin 2X*
What I'm feelin, I'm feelin, ooooh, what I'm feelin...